It sounds like your struggles are with Firebase more than the actual scraping part, so I'm not sure how useful this will be. But there's a marvelous demonstrati

It sounds like your struggles are with Firebase more than the actual scraping part, so I'm not sure how useful this will be. But there's a marvelous demonstration of Clojure's ability to render and serve a scraped digest of the HackerNews homepage. https://github.com/swannodette/enlive-tutorial/blob/master/readme.textile https://github.com/swannodette/enlive-tutorial/blob/master/r... The final product is about 17 lines of code. Which is quite compact, sure—but if it looks like Perl, who cares? Thankfully, it looks nothing like Perl. The code is deeply intuitive and evangelizes the idea that sending an object over a network can often be defined as a composition of functions resulting in the creation of the very object that we're sending. Whether that object is an HTML document, JSON, or whatever, the alluring premise is that these can all be forged from a single bulk-concatenation of strings returned by functions being unrolled in an inner-loop. It looks practically effortless. Might give you some ideas for batching those 30 GET requests. (Or maybe not—I've never used firebase before!)